March 08, 2012, 6:00AM

An anonymous businessman "stepped up to the plate," and will pay the cost of four off-duty police officers and a police supervisor for one month, Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson said Wednesday. Full story »

March 01, 2012, 5:45PM

The Dauphin County District Attorney's office is contemplating nuisance bar action against the downtown nightclub, Dragonfly, by asking city police for records of calls to the club, District Attorney Ed Marsico said today. Early Sunday, a 21-year-old York man bled to death after being stabbed four times outside the North Second Street club. Police officers had to push through... Full story »

November 21, 2011, 7:34AM

A Harrisburg man is accused of robbing a man who declined to buy suspected cocaine from him at a downtown city bar Friday, police said. Rontrez Tuggle, 29, who also lives downtown, attacked the 32-year-old man about 6:20 p.m. after he followed him into the bathroom at the Pub Bar in the first block of Dewberry Street, and asked him... Full story »

September 15, 2011, 4:32PM

A suburban Harrisburg man foiled another man's attempt to rob him downtown Wednesday, police said. Matthew Criscuolo, 25, of the 1200 block of Hudson Street, Harrisburg, is accused of trying to rob a man who had just left an office building and was walking to his car about 9 p.m. in the 200 block of Pine Street, police said. Criscuolo... Full story »

March 25, 2011, 11:00PM

It sounded like a marketer’s dream: Draw traffic from the midstate's most vibrant club scene scene to an all-night "after-party" of a different sort at one of the area's longest-runnning strip-tease clubs. There'd be scheduled pick-ups and drop-offs from the 300 block of North Second Street at 10 p.m., 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., and a hired driver making worries... Full story »

February 23, 2010, 1:01AM

I felt compelled to chime in on Mayor Thompson's handling of snow removal and street cleanup in Harrisburg. Like many central Pennsylvania residents, I, too, was held captive by the recent winter storm and found myself listening attentively to the news/weather broadcasts concerning travel and what that would mean to me for getting to work. I was sure after hearing... Full story »

December 18, 2009, 11:18AM

A man was found guilty Friday of attempted murder and related charges for a stabbing last year outside the Gingerbread Man restaurant in downtown Harrisburg, Pa. A jury convicted Phillip Leon Devenshire, 57, of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and possessing an instrument of crime in the Jan. 22, 2008, assault of Ezra B. Wood. Devenshire tried to sell his watch to... Full story »